How Close Are We to Completely Mapping the Ocean?

[@mojar2680]

3 billion dollars to map the ocean? Relatively cheap in my opinion!

[@lordgarion514]

@Phantom Blade We just paid over 13 billion dollars for one Aircraft carrier...... Not to mention, that with America's GDP, we make $2,283,105,022(billion) per hour. Do you consider something you pay for that costs about an hour and 15 minutes of your pay to be expensive?

[@VBKing2]

@@lordgarion514 it won't be the Americans that do it. It will be a more innovative country/nation to do it. Perhaps Germany. imo.

[@thetaprotocol9598]

@@VBKing2 just wait till someone says theirs massive oil reserves. Well do it in a heartbeat

[@mrboone2451]

Al Fahad Niloy why would you spend money to not make/save money back?

[@mrboone2451]

Let’s start a go fund me

[@MrQuirke9]

The problem with acoustics is the effect they have on cetaceans, especially the deep diving species such as the Curvier's beaked whale. They are mainly found in deep canyons where the sound bounces off the walls causing them to make a bolt for the surface which ends up killing them as they get DCS

[@sicfxmusic]

3 billion? You mean one day military budget?

[@TheDarkFalcon]

Carl CIFER not even one day lol. I looked it up, 1 days military spending is 4.6 billion lol

[@momololo3223]

Nonono, shooting up foreign poor farmer towns and pissing them off with 1 billion per build drones is much better than pursuing for the betterment of the mankind.

[@cryingwater]

You actually need military units for your country to survive, so as to not be taken advantage by others. So I guess it will never happen even if the world is unified.

[@momololo3223]

@@cryingwater Yes, I agree. But 4 billion USD per day clearly implies these soldiers are overfed, especially higher ranks that did not go to frontlines. And yes, they do profit from war. There are many equipments that are clearly overpriced and countless undertable dealing that we won't know forever.

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

@@momololo3223 Obama isn't the president anymore, we aren't droning everyone and their moms now.

[@makatron]

Wreck hunters are going to be very happy with that map. Also imagine the amount of shipwrecks, planes and cargo that we'll find down there.

[@eustache_dauger]

As close as we are to finding MH370

[@Abhishek-zo9jn]

It's parts are already found....

[@chrism3144]

Abhîshek 1247 one flapperon. That’s it

[@Abhishek-zo9jn]

@@chrism3144 Exactly....That much we know about our oceans...😂

[@vatanrangani8033]

Haha

[@farmbear1231]

That plane went to Diego Garcia for some reason

[@AidenR19]

"Now today, we have better maps of Mars than our own sea floor"

[@raz0229]

Previous Video: *_How Close Are We To Completely Mapping the SOLAR SYSTEM?_* This Video: *_How Close Are We to Completely Mapping the OCEAN?_* WTF!!!!

[@ethan-in4ob]

They are running out of ideas

[@Marcus51090]

Well lol funny thing it’s highly likely theirs another outer planet a gas giant with an orbit elliptical period of about 40.000 years

[@raz0229]

@Phantom Blade LOL! *_Can't forget that hour of fun!_*

[@fcgHenden]

Hmm... It's kind of the theme of this series. Would be odd if they talked about gardening in a How Close Are We series. 😅

[@fcgHenden]

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[@evaristegalois6282]

2:26 lol, I was waiting for that. Typical of humans. I'm not against the mining of resources and minerals (we need them, obviously) but I would find it hard to believe that humans would do something as grand as mapping the ocean without somehow searching for ways to exploit the ocean floor

[@Bolter024]

Precisely 😎

[@TraceDominguez]

Yeah

[@brydonthunder]

what's the point of exploring the floor is not for human gain? Curiosity is just one contribution, Scientific study another. Why do you educate yourself if not to inform and use the education in other ways? (Be it personal intellectual enlightenment or programing a website.)

[@riskojames]

grow up

[@bigdickpornsuperstar]

Like we're not already exploiting the ocean... ::facepalm:: Detailed mapping would contribute to that exploitation being less destructive. You don't have to destructively dead-drag through random delicate ecostructures if you know exactly where to look for, say, lithium deposits.

[@monkeylordofdoom14]

I've been waiting for this for ages!! Im so excited!!

[@rishavsinha3376]

Thank God google maps for underwater now I can book an uber to krusty crabs.

[@jmars807]

Lmbo

[@KellonJames]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Cybernaut551]

Comedy.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

I've always dreamed of getting hundreds if not thousands of small autonomous drone subs and visually picture/record most of the sea floor (mostly with the idea of finding every sunken ship that hasn't disintegrated). This seems like a step toward that goal.

[@lukiluhd]

amazing video! my students loved it and are working hard to map the lakes in their own local communities!! one of my students Richard said that he wants to dedicate his life to this project.

[@johndifrancisco3642]

It might be "really disappointing for anyone who's thinking about doing business on the oceans, managing the oceans, thinking about how TO GET WHAT WE NEED from the future of the oceans", but I bet Marine life is happy about it! Personally I think we screwed things up enough "managing" our land and it's "resources". Resource, the name implies the source gets replenished, but not once Humans get their greedy hands on it. I admire your optimism, Trace.

[@TraceDominguez]

Honestly, when we first talked about this idea I was skeptical, as we learned more I converted. MAP THE OCEAN! MAP IT ALL!

[@FactsInto]

yea you are correct and in my opinion 3 billion is very cheap considering the billions of dollars spent on the transportation of the US president alone

[@thetacoguyy]

@@FactsInto we'll probably find Atlantis !

[@reyariass]

Same, now I want to go and help but I gotta work to pay my debt 😭 (unless they pay me to help? 🤔😕)

[@Malgus929]

I hope they do well and meet their deadline. I find this to be important along with space travel

[@queenelizabethiis_corpse]

Humans:Maps planet that doesn't really affect are daily life also humas:Debates on mapping our oceans that would help us save our planet that affects our daily life

[@mr.personhumanson6871]

*our

[@kaianderson4074]

Mr. Person Humanson virgin

[@psionx1]

be sure to remember how maps don't affect your daily life next time your have an item delivered to your house or travel to any place you haven't been before.

[@psionx1]

@@12xenn45 even with US republicans being corrupt idiots the US it-self is already 2nd in generating green energy at over 902,000GW/h. it's not too impressive when you consider it's only 30% of the total. but the only reason for that is that the population density outside cities is low making it hard to justify building new infrastructure.

[@IPromiseTomorrow]

We could find aliens if we map more. Because we only need to map a life supporting planet. This helps find aliens search. Also we could observe what they do. We could learn and copy or alter or Humans grew up on a life supporting planet. So, so would aliens.

[@Eclectic_Cowboy]

3:57 I'm sorry, is that a spider underwater?! I'm good I don't need a map.

[@justincarnes1553]

How do I join the foundation for making the sea map? I really want to be a part of that.

[@johnraffaelli4841]

20/30 is a great goal for having the mapping done for the entire ocean but maybe by cutting it in in half by maybe taking two years and you know half as many ships you can cut cost-efficiency down and and maybe even save some money so it's so we can actually push that push it up further you know we could see it sooner you guys are really smart we can work it out I'm sure keep up the good work is awesome I love what you guys are doing keep me informed please thank you

[@marco.nascimento]

Just amazing, hope we map our planet as soon as possible. It would hugely benefit our undestanding of how it all works and how to protect from ourselves.

[@NatHawley]

Amazing episodes guys! I thought trace was leaving? Really glad he's still around

[@elgun97]

Howw great to see you here ,Trace.

[@MidnightBloomDev]

2030: finally mapped oceans. Oh sea floor raised by 1km of plastic, let's map again

[@chan625]

That dolphin footage at 1:56 is so cool

[@Randodacamando1]

Scientists: loud sounds are harmful to marine life Also scientists: we'll use sound to map the ocean

[@cascadeum1]

Their ears be like 💥 Jokes aside, nobody can hear the sounds, literally no living organism will hear that.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

The people mapping the Ocean should create a youtube channel and then ask for subs

[@holysalmon1651]

Evnautilus

[@OguzPala]

Bathymetry or ocean geology is one of my biggest passions. I hope they can manage to map the entire oceans on time or maybe -with pessimistically- even before the given date.

[@sergioin3D]

Love these new transitions.

[@rtswift]

Do the techniques used to map the sea floor affect the wildlife/environment? Like if they are using aquostic waves does it affect dolphins/whales? If they are using radar/radioactive waves does it heat up the earth?

[@shaneschambach932]

Remains ‘undiscovered,’ on land: 1. Beneath the tree canopies of dense forests, 2. Some caverns still not yet found, 3. Inside some craters of volcanoes active or inactive, 4. Underneath all the ice, when it melts, 5.Some rock formations or unearthed mines

[@shaneschambach932]

Is this a YES or a NO?

[@galenyoung4838]

We have a bunch of vessels mapping the ocean floors. I have had many friends who served on those vessels, from the 1960s and up through today. USNS Stalwart (T-AGOS-1). USNS Victorious (T-AGOS-19) USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS-23) John McDonnell (T-AGS-51), Littlehales (T-AGS-52). USNS Pathfinder (T-AGS-60) USNS Sumner (T-AGS-61) USNS Bowditch (T-AGS-62) USNS Henson (T-AGS-63) USNS Bruce C. Heezen (T-AGS-64) USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS-65) USNS Maury (T-AGS-66)

[@MotorHeadTech]

Imagine finding a underwater cave in the ocean to then build a secret home, something one would see in a cartoon superhero movie/show

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

The ocean is amazingly vast and has so many secrets we don't know about.

[@megamanhikari8095]

Yeah like the secrets of water and dirt.

[@danielnewhouse5044]

The Chicxulub crater used to be more visible on topography maps when I was a child. This is not to be confused with the Yellowstone caldera.

[@kb8619]

Can you give your take what are those protrusions under the sea north from Mt. Athos in Greece?!

[@ErnestJay88]

We can spend 625 Billion dollars annually for Military budget, but can't spend 3 billion for science.

[@brandoncammon7971]

sad world mate

[@mrt1r]

The 625 billions of dollars pumped into the military is responsible for the creation of millions of jobs and the development of a great deal of new technology that has benefited humankind as a whole, not to mention global security and the assurance of the free use of the oceans for all nations across the entire globe, as well as the countless humanitarian missions conducted by the military. Now, I'm not knocking the pursuit of science, all I'm saying is you should understand what the military delivers in terms of ROI before you start knocking the expense.

[@alifaanication]

Humans who are dicks to other human. Main reason why thats so. Wont even need a military like that if we werent out to kill each other

[@alifaanication]

If anything we would need task forces to help out each other if it was a perfect world

[@maxwiktorsson]

"We", Americans spend 625 Billion dollars annually. And that is just stupid, the whole world has been trying to say that the US military budget is insane

[@sebstefan3934]

Nice to see Trace back.

[@professordanfurmanek3732]

Retired Professor here, begin issuing detailed maps and the world will take notice and fund the program!!!

[@luisvalencia9962]

How close are we to running out of fossil fuels/ how close are we to economic crash/ how close are we to being overthrown by other global superpowers/ how close are we to evolving into another species (hyperhuman). Just some ideas for future episodes, thank you for your consideration.

[@Trading--569]

this channel deserve more than 3 million subscribers

[@V3ritas1989]

maybe a dumb question but why don't they do it like google maps with airplanes. Just cooperate with shipping companies and cruise lines and install these devices on their ships. The leftovers then take only very little time and money (in comparison), while common shipping routes will be much more accurately mapped.

[@bubble4662]

Because ships that carry cargo just go to a specific route so that would not be enough to map the ocean

[@jakesweet1000]

i assume because cargo ships have to go specific routes, and maybe you have to go slow enough to do it which wouldnt be good for the things getting shipped.

[@secrethehe9738]

Their talking about deep not the surface of the ocean

[@jelohsimo2435]

@@secrethehe9738 True. Satellites already mapped the surface of the ocean; what's left is the depths.

[@lordgarion514]

@@jelohsimo2435 Satellites mapped the ocean floor using the ocean surface.

[@no_nope_knope]

Thank you! Great episode!

[@vanity_.]

This is a really good & informative video.

[@treborironwolfe978]

Why not have some basic certification process for existing ships (of all countries) to apply to have an automated version of sonar recording/mapping installed and uploading data periodically? That could also help us better monitor changes as well as topography.

[@ExtendedAVA]

Ships have routes 😅 They are not shipping like bees all around, so u would never get a whole picture. Probably not even 10%

[@MarcoLiedekerken]

How detailed will the mapping be (did I miss this info) ? Will lost airplanes be found ?

[@jrno93]

Look outside your window. That's how detailed it'll be

[@Cybernaut551]

It would be a renaissance-leval of cool details that will thrust science to the future.

[@mike814031]

1:53 where can you see those detailed maps of the Moon and Mars etc. ?

[@urbanwarchief]

I wanna map the ocean floor. That sounds like a dope accomplishment

[@elahedhn8769]

Thank you so much about this video

[@jennflprofileupdated8931]

Thank you for the videos!

[@tea4223]

Love your videos.... thanks. 👍

[@deathmichael5391]

After you guys finish, when are you planning to do it again? If you only map it one time, then you cannot compare and understand the changes and movements. How long its gonna take for the second time?

[@hawtdawgsausage4897]

The Mariana trench MAY not be the deepest point on this planet because there's only a small percentage of huge oceans been explore

[@RahulGautam-uo5jh]

The best of this month .......New year's on the way

[@colonelgraff9198]

Did they find the Red October yet?

[@echoweeibo]

Tf

[@vindawg101]

Are there any samples of what the map would look like? The map of the ocean floor that is supposed to be done by 2030. Is it just topography, or does it include photographs of the actual surface?

[@andrew9358]

So fascinating!!

[@prasad5703]

We have only explored about 5% ocean. Just imagine what creatures could be lurking down there considering we've found gigantic creatures like Big Squid and Dragon Fish which looks something out of a horror movie. When we do explore more of the ocean i bet we will find some nightmarish creatures.

[@theorangeoof926]

Most species that we have discovered in the ocean live in high activity regions such as corals and tropical reefs, most of the ocean is a desert devoid of life.

[@sundarAKintelart]

I hear the mother earth cry "leave me alone", "please don't assault me any more". "Don't test my patience ".....

[@Banana-rg9pz]

Maybe it is a cost thing but how much space does a sonar take? Isn't it possible to add sonar systems to carrier ships or other ships that tour around a lot?

[@d.w.7963]

Video Ideas: How close are we to a renewable energy powered planet? Hint: Portable Geothermal Power (aka Thorium Molten Salt Reactors) and Kite Power Systems are under rated technologies with huge potential here How close are we to a jobless world? Hint: Access over ownership, Universal Basic Income, automation, and Resource Based (or Circular) Economies, are all making big strides here. How close are we to a climate change catastrophe? Hint: According to the IPCC report about 12 years

[@shortforchange]

I think the heavy balls in fabric is an incredibly bad representation of gravity. Seeing as different density around the earth effects gravity, its not like a single point creating a well.

[@lozoft9]

A model is a model. It's not going to be exact and that is okay. The vast majority of people will never have to deal with problems involving Earth's non-uniform gravity. It would be like teaching the orbital model of the atom before the ball-and-stick model.

[@therealmrtwonuts]

3:56 NOPE. Thats some nightmare fuel right there.

[@LumpDr]

What background music did you use for the first couple of minutes?

[@sicfxmusic]

Yes guys we have finished polluting the ocean surface, now it's time to go deeper and ruin everything. Cheeeers :DDD

[@cryingwater]

You can't really avoid that. You can only minimize the damage.

[@VariantAEC]

So things don't sink in water in your version of reality? Cool story.

[@Chris-dy1cb]

Lets negate the possibility of a new frontier of discovery by being petty and thinking mankind will inevitably destroy it

[@VariantAEC]

@Sky Man Has the ocean floor been mapped? Yes. Accurately? ...No. The problem is the maps of the totality of the ocean floor hasn't been accurately mapped because thousands of feet of water is quite hard to see through it's why submarines are still a thing. If stealth weren't possible military subs today wouldn't be a thing (because of their cost and overall uselessness outside of being covert). The ocean floor is very hard to map. Having maps isn't the same as accurate mapping. The ocean floor a few feet from the coast in Florida that is visible to the naked eye isn't the same as trying to figure out what is underneath miles of water in some places in the same ocean a few hundered miles away from the same coast in the same ocean even if you're directly above the area you want to map. So again mapped? Sure. Mapped well? If those 500 year old maps of the world are accurate to you... Then yes, I guess.

[@VariantAEC]

@Sky Man Actually they explained how global organizations will use accurate maps of the the ocean floor for their own benefit. Did you watch the video? Most of the stuff humans make isn't for general use and doesn't directly benefit you as an individual. If you're healthy you don't know what it's like to need the medical equipment your own species pioneered. Does that mean it doesn't help those that do? I guess according to you it does, right?

[@zaiderPhoenix23]

Its still pretty insane to think about

[@swardinc]

actually that makes me a little happy that means something that still holds possiblties for everything we humans do

[@DUBSTEP_KUSH305]

I know I'm waaay out the subject but... Can they find mh370 while they mapping??? 😌🤗🙈

[@n3Cr0ManCeD]

Have they done a "how close are we to Quantum Computing"? If not, I would love to see it.

[@Five7weezy]

4:26 Elon????? C'mon man it's for the good our species bro!

[@dellhpfree]

I once tried to Map my wife’s closest... I almost went extinct 🤣😆🤣

[@FluufyPvPTM]

Oh that's sad

[@Phyto.]

sigh

[@omegacage]

You guys love to talk about advances in prosthetics. But those fancy devices never make it to the consumer market. How close are we to having touch sensitive, neural feedback prosthetics available on the regular consumer market?

[@livewellwitheds6885]

altimeters are also how airplanes can have a program that helps land by stating the height above the ground!

[@elahedhn8769]

Again thank you

[@bodyboardingchronicles602]

It's been maped since the 80's by the US Navy, we have land lines / cables under the whole ocean? Long distance calls? Sonar? Radar? FlIR? TIS? GPS? Over the horizon GPS? Come on civilians? One Team

[@thechandan136]

The acoustic to be used in mapping won't they affect marine life?

[@rathven4917]

3:00 I'm still scared from these eels because of Super Mario 64's dire dire docks level :C

[@Synicall]

This will be epic if we do actually fund this

[@NeverBeenToBrisbane]

If the top 10 1st world countries all chipped in it would be 20 ships each. way less expensive. And if they add the machines to ships already going out, compensation would be a fraction of the cost of dedicated resources

[@davidvanderven]

If a network of sensor bouys could be placed, throughout the oceans it might mean that substantially fewer ships and aircraft will go missing.

[@Kawaii159qwerthvd]

Well now I’m mad I probably won’t live long to know about more of the ocean

[@jordank511]

I would be interested to learn how close we are to reversing much of the desertification of landscapes such as the Sahara in Africa and the Gobi in China.

[@SkittleGirlTokyo]

Reversing? Bro, the Sahara desert sand provides the rainforest with nutrients to well, BE A RAINFOREST. Then, lots of detailed science info later, moisture from the rainforest, travels to mountains, it rains, water flows, eventually making it to icebergs which fall into the ocean (naturally or should be naturally and not cause of a warming ocean) and the nutrients from the icebergs feeds plankton and again, fast forward a bit, we end up with oxygen. Wanting to reverse deserts is the most absurd thing I have read all year. Everything on this planet contributes to its overall health and existence. To your existence.

[@dylana8693]

This is beautiful

[@chrisdawson9345]

I have an idea coming from a kid who loves video games and is watching this for school, what if we sent out mapping systems that gamers like me could control and move underwater that way you have boats drones and underwater robots controlled by kids and adults everyday

[@Moodymongul]

Past generations would say to this video "Hogwash and Boulderdash!". And I tend to agree :-) The ocean floor was mapped decades ago (some of it clouded with past military secrets). Right now, theres not a spot under the seas (at least, none of interest) that hasn't been mapped.

[@toknrs5288]

wish them luck for ocean mapping, and wish me luck can witness them if may i can't make it to witnessing them.

[@iliquify]

Someone please turn this into a MMO game to map the ocean. I’ll be more than happy to play

[@tasneemahmed9558]

Thanks.

[@imsyed5]

So we know more about what's up there than what's down there! Pacific Rim 🤗

[@pitman4life839]

It's not only mapping our plant's ocean's it's what is within them

[@kemperharlow9199]

that's part of becoming a type 1 civilization.

[@itstommynutter7088]

hey man, another really great episode. for a future episode idea how about "how close are we to world peace" or at least how close is the US to pulling out its troops and sending them to africa to dig wells and solve world hunger. or how close are we to africa not being a third world country anymore. or how close are we to using up our coal reserves.

[@daddydandy2901]

Africa isnt a third world country its a continant with some third world countries within it

[@lordgarion514]

America already digs water wells in Africa. We're also the largest supplier of food to 3rd world countries. But we're probably not going anywhere until the terrorists disband, or we kill enough of them that they aren't a real problem anymore. There's no such thing as complete world peace. But today, the average persons chances of dying by violent means has never been lower.

[@itstommynutter7088]

@@daddydandy2901 thanks for the correction. was in a hurry typing that post.

[@itstommynutter7088]

@Pichkalu Pappita i dont watch the news i just know of the unbalanced priorites the us goverment has

[@itstommynutter7088]

@@lordgarion514 i know they already do but cmon, ever since i was a kid there have been bblue peterr water appeals and campaign commercials everywhere, and when i hear the US military budget and dont see mucch justification for the amountt of wars theyre actively participating in (uk too) i justt find it hard to not criticise the country budgets priorites

[@Kichu-lt1sw]

The sounds may disturb many marine organisms

[@mrt1r]

The SONAR used in these underwater maps is ultrasonic. Its several hundred kilohertz, meaning it is well beyond the audible range of pretty much everything. The frequent traffic of large merchant vessels or vast fields of shrimp are far more of a nuisance than this SONAR.

[@devonrusinek5807]

I don't hear you complaining about roads disrupting land organisms.

[@sambojinbojin-sam6550]

Hmmm. I might book that in, even with 50% cost overruns.

[@MichaelSHartman]

Wouldn't this many continuous radar signals severely affect sea life, possibly killing some just for a better map? Why not use ships already crossing the oceans? The sea lanes would be quite detailed.

[@toddroy9558]

What do you do if other countries don’t want you mapping in their area of the ocean?

[@YurLord]

Why don't they use the Ocean Cleanup Project's automated cleanup vessels to map some portions of the ocean automatically?

[@billythedead7127]

Getting better but still not even close

[@locateMohit]

Better than building the drone ships, why not you equip all the ships in the world with data grabbing equipments, so that the data can be collected from various locations in very less time or less money. It will be faster and for the remaining place send you ships there for mapping.

[@Apolloneek]

I thinks it's crazy how we know more about other planets and the galaxy are but still don't know our own planet

[@scarletbegonias2359]

Perhaps LiDAR will shed some light onto the subject...